Cigarette holder



Patented Oct. 21, 1924.

parts EDWARD EEKSERGIAN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

Y CIGARETTE HOLDER;

Application filedApiril 2a, 1921. Serial udaeaasa;

1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD EKsERcIAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cigarette Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention comprises a cigarette holder comprising a handle having a split portion forming cigarette holding jaws and provided with a clamping ring.

The objects of my invention are to provide a device which eliminates the necessity of holding the cigarette in the fingers and which permits the. cigarette to be laid down on any surface without damaging the same and which forms an attractive and useful gift novelty.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate a selected embodiment of my invention.

Figure 1 is an elevation of my device with a cigarette held therein.

Figure 2 is an elevation looking at right angles to the direction from which Figure 1 is seen and showing the device at rest upon a table top or similar surface.

Figure 3 is a detail view of the clamping ring. r

The handle 1 is preferably formed of tubular material and is slotted inwardly at 2 for a substantial distance from one end. The portions of the handle on each side of the slot are bent outwardly and their terminations form semi-circular jaws 3 adapted to receive a cigarette and when pressed to gether to hold the same securely but without crushing it. p

A ring 1 is slidable along handle 1 and furnishes the clamping means. terial of the handle should possess sufficient springiness to separate when ring 4. is withdrawn from its clamping position. The jaws 3 are so formed that their edges contact when the semi-circular faces cooperate to form a circle approximating the diameter of the average cigarette.

Ring 4 is provided with projections 5 adapted to support the ring and the adjacent portion of the handle from a surface upon which the holder is laid.

The ma The split portions. of the handle are narrowed and the ring is made oval in shape so that it will not be rotatable about the axis of the handle. Projections 5 are located on one of the narrow ends of the ring and this arrangement provides that the gripping faces of jaws 3 will always be at right angles to the projections 5 and ac,- cordingly parallel with the surface upon which the holder is laid.

I prefer to place the weight 6 in the un split end of the holder which is the portion grasped by the fingers of the user. This adds solidity to the device and insures the spacing of the cigarette end from a supporting surface ,when the holder is laid down.

In a design in which a clamping ring was located near the longitudinal center 'ofthe handle, the likelihood of the cigarette end contacting with the supporting surface would be great enough to justify the addition of weight. 6 for the purpose mentioned.

I contemplate. the usual modifications of the features described in the commercial development of my holder without departing from the scope of my invention as set forth in thefollowing claims.

I claim 1. A cigarette holder comprising a tubular handle split longitudinally near one end with the terminals of its split portion bent to .form opposed semi-circular jaws having gripping faces extending parallel. with the split and with the split portions narrowed in the direction of the split, a clamping ring slidably and non-rotatably mounted on the narrowed split portions of the handle and supporting. projections extending radially from said ring.

2. In a cigarette holder, a handle one end of which comprises opposed longitudinal elements of springy material diverging.

from, each other and terminating in jaws adapted to receive a cigarette between them,

a ring encircling said elements and slidable thereon and adapted to clamp their jaws when spaced a substantial distance therefrom, and projections on the exterior of saidringwhereby the jaws are raised from any surface upon which the holder may be laid, and means for maintaining a predetermined angular relation between said projections and the gripping faces of said jaws.

3. In a cigarette holder, a longitudinal handle weighted at one end and split for a substantial distance from its opposite end with the split portions terminating" in a pair of cigarette holding jaws and, behind said j being of r etr fil -p n i n in direction through the handle than in the transverse direction, an elongated clamping ring encircling the split portion and slidable thereon, and exterior" projections onsaid ring extending in a directlon an rlght angles to the gripping faces 01" the cigarette 10 holding jaws" whereby m ei'garet te held by the-latter is raised from and held parallel with g snriece upon which the holder is laid.

" In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix 15 my 16th day of April, 1921.

EDWARD EKSERGIAN. 

